Animal-trap.



PATENTED JULY 18, 1905.

B. FIRNHABER.

ANIMAL TRAP.

APPLIOATION nun rm. 20.1905.

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Attorneys Patented July 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD FIRNI-IABER, OF JANESVILLE, MINNESOTA.

ANIMAL-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 794,856, dated July 18,1905,

Application filed February 20, 1905. Serial No. 246,563.

To all whom, it natty concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD FIRNHABER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Janesville, in the county of Waseca and State of Minnesota,have invented a new and useful Animal-Trap,of which the following isaspecification.

This invention relates to animal-traps, and has for its object toimprove the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of thischaracter.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novelfeatures of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters,is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capableof carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood thatthe invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes inthe shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may beresorted to without departing from the principle of the invention orsacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective View of theimproved trap in poised or set position viewed from the front. Fig. 2 isa rear elevation.

The improved device comprises a rectangular frame 10 of a single pieceof wire with one end extended into a threaded supporting-spur 11 and theother end looped around the threaded end, as at 12. The frame 10 is alsoprovided with eyes 13 14:, coiled in the side members, and in alinementtransversely of the frame the eyes for supporting a shaft 15. Coiledabout the shaft 15, between the eyes 13 14:, is aspring 16, having oneend conspring 16 is connected to the striker member, as at 21, so thatthe force 'of the spring is thereby utilized to maintain the strikermember yieldably in depressed position, as will be obvious.

A trigger member 22 is mounted to swing from the free end of the frame10 and support the striker member in elevated position when the triggermember is in depressed position, as in Fig. 1. Connecting the sidemembers of the frame 10 and intermediately of the same is a rod 23, andswinging upon the rod is a trip member 24, having a bait-support 25 atits free end and with an aperture 26 near the rod 23 to receive the freeend 27 of the trigger 22, as in Fig. 1. By this simple arrangement thestriker member will be maintained in a poised position until a slightdownward movement of the trip 2 1 is made in the effort of the animal toremove the bait therefrom, when the striker member will be released andbe thrown violently downward upon the animal, either killing itinstantly and retaining the body beneath the striker or imprisoning theanimal if not killed outright. I

The trap may be attached to a supportingblock or to the floor or othersupport by the spur 11 in any desired locality and may be of any desiredsize to catch any size of animal.

A safety-hook 28 is connected to swing from the frame 10 for engagingthe striker member and retaining it in poised position when not in useor when being shipped, and thus enabling the trap to be packed in asmall space. This is an important feature of the invention and addsmaterially to its value.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- An animal-trapcomprising a rectangular frame formed from a single piece of wire withone end ex tended and threaded to form a spur for supporting the framein vertical position and provided with transversely-alined eyes bentinto its side members, a shaft supported in said eyes, a spring coiledupon said shaft and connected by one end to said frame, a striker memberswinging from said spring and connected to the other end of the samewhereby the force of the spring is exerted to maintain said strikermember in depressed In testimony that I claim the foregoing as posltion,a trigger connected to said frame i my own I have hereto aflixedmyslgnature in for engagement With sald strlker member for the presenceof two Witnesses.

holding the same in poised position, and a EDWARD FIRNHABER. 5 triphaving a bait-support at one end and de- Witnesses:

tachably connected to said trigger at the other W. A. BORN,

end.

EMIL DIEUDONNE.

